DogWater
@DogWater@lemmy.world
- Comment on Solar modules now selling for less than €0.06/W in Europe 2 days ago:
I agree, but off grid solar requires a lot more panels and personal infrastructure owned by the customer than grid tied solar. and a storage solution for night time and winter and cloudy days.
A typical house isn’t going off grid and maintaining a worry free electric schedule without a minimum of 25,000$ of panels, mounts, inverters, batteries, BMS, cabling, installation, and permits.
To be fair, the cost is still less than the amount of time the system will last so economically is can be viable but who has 25,000$ just sitting around…you have to be able to install it yourself to save enough money to really even think about doing it.
I am on your side, but we should be focusing on storage technology right now because solar is honestly really advanced at this point. Once those technologies can work together all the arguments against solar that make sense disappear.
- Comment on Solar modules now selling for less than €0.06/W in Europe 3 days ago:
Because grid level power delivery is about FAR more than just raw wattage numbers. Momentum of spinning turbines is extremely important to the grid. The grid relies on generation equipment maintaing an AC frequency of 60 hz or 50hz or whatever a country decides on. Changing loads throughout the day literally and a resistance to the entire grid and it can drag the frequency down.
reliable consistent power delivery is absolutely critical when it comes to running the grid effectively and that is something that solar and wind are bad at
Ideally we will be able to use those technologies to fill grid level storage to supply 100% of our energy needs in the not to distant future but until then we desperately need large, consistent, clean power generation.
- Comment on Feral Science 2 weeks ago:
That awesome, gonna add them to my list. I’m doing we are legion, we are Bob right now. 5th book just came out
- Comment on Feral Science 2 weeks ago:
Wait…there’s 3 books? Where in the books does the movie leave off??
- Comment on Feral Science 2 weeks ago:
Ornithologist then?
- Comment on Know thy enemy 2 weeks ago:
If you have water you have hydrogen.
there’s no reason to transport hydrogen if they build infrastructure to use it as a fuel they will build a process to make it on site
- Comment on Know thy enemy 2 weeks ago:
I swear every time I see an argument like that one, if they zoomed out and considered a system in total instead of one process they would see that it’s bullshit
Either they are naive or arguing in bad faith…
- Comment on I feel you, green guy. 3 weeks ago:
This is a great take
- Comment on I hate that that happens 3 weeks ago:
More space between pig and and as well as between and and whistle.
- Comment on Be happy if you woke up today and your throat didn’t hurt. 3 weeks ago:
I think about this every time I start to get sick.
- Comment on YSK that United has significantly escalated their war against basic economy passengers 3 weeks ago:
It was such a ludicrous satire at the time and now it’s just moderately hyperbolic
- Comment on YSK that United has significantly escalated their war against basic economy passengers 3 weeks ago:
Is this an ancient 4chan pasta?
- Comment on TSMC execs allegedly dismissed Sam Altman as ‘podcasting bro’ — OpenAI CEO made absurd requests for 36 fabs for $7 trillion 1 month ago:
I feel the same way man, I’m so excited about this tech because of the few use cases that we will discover and will change our lives and cause a paradigm shift…but it will be controlled by someone who is ultra rich (a person or corp) so that’s awful. And there is a ton of stuff that is a grift that will die off and gives it a bad name so I temper my excitement of it around most people because it’s unpopular to root for the tech.
- Comment on TSMC execs allegedly dismissed Sam Altman as ‘podcasting bro’ — OpenAI CEO made absurd requests for 36 fabs for $7 trillion 1 month ago:
He’s the best for unbiased info when new models drop and news drops. Love that channel.
- Comment on Oh Elon 1 month ago:
Right, gotcha. Ty
- Comment on Oxygen 2 months ago:
Oxygen is so crazy that once microbiology in the ancient oceans started producing it, all life on earth nearly died. Like very nearly sterilized the earth.
- Comment on Oh Elon 2 months ago:
Are these guys referencing something specific or is this just general?
- Comment on The Science of Storytelling 2 months ago:
Got a nice taste to it
- Comment on The air begins to leak out of the overinflated AI bubble 2 months ago:
Yeah, someone else commented with their financials and they look really good, so while I certainly agree that they are overvalued because we are in an AI training bubble, I don’t see it popping for a few years, especially given that they are selling the shovels. every big player in the space is set on orders of magnitude of additional compute for the next 2 years or more. It doesn’t matter if the company they sold gpus to fails if they already sold them. Something big that unexpected would have to happen to upset that trajectory right now and I don’t see it because companies are in the exploratory stage of ai tech so no one knows what doesn’t work until they get the computer they need. I could be wrong, but that’s what I see as a watcher of ai news channels on YouTube.
The co founder of open AI just got a billion dollars for his new 3 month old AI start up. They are going to spend that money on talent and compute. X just announced a data center with 100,000 gpus for grok2 and plans to build the largest in the world I think? But that’s Elon, so grains of salt and all that are required there. Nvidia are working with robotics companies to make AI that can train robots virtually to do a task and in the real world a robot will succeed first try. No more Boston dynamics abuse compilation videos. Right now agentic ai workflow is supposed to be the next step, so there will be overseer ai algorithms to develop and train.
All that is to say there is a ton of work that requires compute for the next few years.
{Opinion here} – I feel like a lot of people are seeing grifters and a wobbly gpt4o launch and calling the game too soon. It takes time to deliver the next product when it’s a new invention in its infancy and the training parameters are scaling nearly logarithmically from gen to gen.
I’m sure the structuring of payment for the compute devices isn’t as simple as my purchase of a gaming GPU from microcenter, but Nvidia are still financially sound. I could see a lot of companies suffering from this long term but nvidia will be The player in AI compute, whatever that looks like, so they are going to bounce back and be fine.
- Comment on The air begins to leak out of the overinflated AI bubble 2 months ago:
I’m not sure, these companies are building data centers with so many gpus that they have to be geo located with respect to the power grid because if it were all done in one place it would take the grid down.
And they are just building more.
- Comment on Founder and CEO of Telegram messaging service arrested in France 2 months ago:
Oh for fucks sake I’m so tired of this bullshit.
Governments nowadays are constantly acting like a tech platform has a responsibility eliminate privacy for users because if they have privacy, then they can’t be tracked. It’s infuriating.
- Comment on Ah sweet! 3 months ago:
I was once but that was a long while ago. I don’t remember much of that book lol
- Comment on Ah sweet! 3 months ago:
Right, I assumed we weren’t about to see this on shelves or anything like that any time soon. But man that could do a lot for animal ethics
- Comment on Ah sweet! 3 months ago:
My hunch is that, as proposed, this is the most ethical form of meat consumption because the meat is being taken and consumed with consent from the donor. (Yourself) And there’s no living creature that even suffers from the process
- Comment on Ah sweet! 3 months ago:
So what do we feed the cells to allow them to grow?
- Comment on Somehow USB disks are still the easiest and most reliable way 3 months ago:
Right on. Thank you
- Comment on 8 Minutes 3 months ago:
That is correct as weird as it sounds
- Comment on What has he done to deserve this? 3 months ago:
In the long run, maybe. short term is all that matters. And short term it costs money
- Comment on AMD delays its Ryzen 9000 launch due to unspecified quality issue — new launch in August; chipmaker pulls back all units shipped globally for quality checks 3 months ago:
Coincidences are real my guy.
- Comment on Somehow USB disks are still the easiest and most reliable way 3 months ago:
Is it vetted by someone reputable?